Nicolas Kemper

A private system focuses on providing service to the routes and times with the highest demand, whereas the public system has an obligation to provide comprehensive service at all times. Similar dynamic with the post office's duty to provide flat rate service to the entire country versus, say, fedex.

It’s me wearing a leopard print jumpsuit standing on top of a very tall ladder reading from a newsprint publication to a large group of people in what looks like a factory

A closeup of me wearing that leopard print jumpsuit holding a microphone and reading from a newsprint publication on top of a tall ladder with a cluster of lighting fixtures behind me

Me standing with four other women at the same event but now on the ground: Jia Yi Gu, Joanne McNeill, Chelsea Kirk and Mimi Zeiger, and Chelsea is holding a copy of the Los Angeles Review of architecture showing an illustration of two rats in the iconic Julius Shulman photo of the Stahl House looking out over LA

A page from the publication impaled on a hook from the ceiling. The text reads Angeles Ashes Postfire redevelopment could help long-term Altadena residents regain their footing — or hasten their exit. Alissa Walker The illustration shows a burned home with a for sale sign plastered over with a SOLD sign

New rule, all literary readings should feel like union rallies.

Thanks to @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social and all the architects, advocates, policymakers, and impacted families who shared their stories with me. (No thanks to Spencer Pratt.) LARA #2 available soon at nyra.nyc

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We need voices that aren't influenced or bought by corporate interests and the billionaire class.

Looking up a building in Los Angeles...

This is indeed great. Lol:

Still a lot of parking lots. Quite possibly 50%

Which city is that?

“How much Minecraft is enough? To quote John D. Rockefeller, ‘Just a little bit more.’”

Travis Diehl yearns for the metaverse in NYRA no. 46/47.

nyra.nyc/articles/for...

Yes!!! Sending all the vibes from El Lay!

“A bad mood board of good intentions.”
— lol via @glindsay.bsky.social

Get Thee Outside If you stay in, you're actually missing out. Plus, more links to propel you through your Tuesday.

Take a walk on your lunch break. We dare you.

It would appear ICE now advertises on ArchDaily.

There I think I agree!

But I think it would have helped fortify the work if he had spawned a lineage. A whole set of architects and educators who could trace their progenitors back to Taliesin.

The Germans were very good at that.

I think you mean treated* but yes, I can vouch for that.

He was also very flawed as a person, and did a lousy job of empowering many of his would-be disciples. Instead he - and his wife after he died - abused them, really ground them down.

Solid insight. Here is notre dame doing just that -

Chicago Review of Architecture reviews architecture in Chicago.

We are pleased to share that we have received a grant from the Graham Foundation for a Chicago Review of Architecture.

I think it is a fallacious logic that assumes the bigger stores are cheaper because they are more efficient, and that the only way to bring down prices is by unleashing Walmart. I found Zephyr Teachout's proposals for reducing New York grocery prices more trenchant:

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/o...

I actually just wrote a piece about Co-op City's newspaper, in which I talked to Annemarie:

nyra.nyc/articles/204...

Vital City | The Real Story of Co-op City A historian explains how the mega-housing-project got built in the first place.

Political candidates love to visit Co-op City and talk about it as a model of how New York can do big things on the housing front. Its complex history complicates the bold proclamations, writes Annemarie Sammartino. www.vitalcitynyc.org/articles/the...

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1 like = 1 passenger rail project idea

(I wanted to wait to finish my blog post before committing to a thread.)

i would build a new university in rural michigan where all my friends would get together and reinvent german idealism from first principles. so no.

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A SERIOUS request to @michaelrbloomberg.bsky.social — please create an account for Bloomberg Citylab here on @bsky.app. Citylab has been an excellent platform for articles about cities (I used to write for it, and @langealexandra.bsky.social won a Pulitzer for it!).

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Space invaders On day 32, they came for our parks

As I watched federal troops advance across a mostly empty MacArthur Park, I knew there was one part of the park that was definitely filled with people. My kids go to the same summer camp at another LA city rec center. Where, apparently, nothing could stop this from happening again today

Hot take: rapid transit riders deserve sunlight, fresh air and views. Ie, we should actually try to keep lines on grade or elevated, and out of tunnels.

New York’s public pools open today! In honor of the delights of cold, chlorinated water, we're revisiting a question posed by Karolina Czeczek, @ntok.bsky.social‬, and A. L. Hu in NYRA no. 21: “Why does New York no longer build public pools?”

nyra.nyc/articles/why...

Four horn players from Kamasi Washington’s band play inside a concrete room.

A fir extinguisher embedded in a concrete wall.

A set of floating concrete stairs leads to the second story of a museum:

A piece of Japanese inspired architecture is visible through a hallway of concrete walls

Sneaky peeks from LACMA’s new Zumthor building.

There are voters on Randalls island??